Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC; sometimes anglicized as Tully) was a Roman philosopher, politician, lawyer, orator, political theorist, consul and constitutionalist. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the Roman equestrian order, and is widely considered one of Rome’s greatest orators and prose stylists.
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Anyone who has a library and a garden wants for nothing.
– Cicero
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A pretended affection is not easily distinguished from a real one, unless in seasons of distress. For adversity is to friendship what fire is to gold—the only infallible test to discover the genuine from the counterfeit. In all other cases they both have the same common marks.
—Cicero.
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Bitter and unrelenting enemies often deserve better of us than those friends whom we are inclined to regard as pleasant companions; the former often tell us the truth, the latter never.
—Cicero
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By doubting we come at the truth.
– Cicero
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Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.
~Cicero
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“Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief”
~Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Friendship throws a greater lustre on prosperity, while it lightens adversity by sharing in its griefs and anxieties.
—Cicero.
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Fortune favors the bold.
—Cicero.
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It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
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It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others, and to forget his own.
—Cicero.
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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
– Cicero
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Nature has instilled in our minds an insatiable desire to see truth.
– Cicero
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Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.
~Cicero
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Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
—Cicero
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Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.
– Cicero
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Silence is one of the greatest art of conversation.
~Cicero
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There is no grief that time will not soften.
—Cicero.
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There is nothing so ridiculous that some philosopher has not said it.
– Cicero
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What is becoming is honest, and whatever is honest must always be becoming.
— Cicero.
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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
– Cicero